buying a Hd

**trutech781** · December 16th, 2006, 04:42 PM

Hello I'm thinking about buying a hd. I get to choose between a Maxtor 200GB Maxtor 7200RPM Serial ATA/150 and a WESTERN DIGITAL 200GB SERIAL ATA SATA 200GB HDD 7200RPM 8MB. What is the best brand of hd to buy?

**Platypus** · December 16th, 2006, 05:01 PM

It's a bit like what's the best make of car to buy. Everyone has different experiences of good and bad drives, good & bad backup service etc. Also any brand can be having a bad patch at some time, then come good again.

I've had a good run with Seagate and WD, and have not had a high opinion of Maxtor (which is now merged with Seagate anyway).

**NooNoo** · December 16th, 2006, 05:12 PM

Which one has the longer warranty? Which one is Sata 300? Which one has the bigger cache?
Note that warranty comes before everything else!!

**trutech781** · December 16th, 2006, 05:16 PM

well maybe I should ask which brand and cache do you guys use?

**xpuser357** · December 16th, 2006, 08:08 PM

I have two WD harddrives one IDE one USB The IDE is 5 years old and usb 2
is 2 years old both are still working so far. I also bought a SEAGATE for backup
when IDE drive fails

**eedmond** · December 16th, 2006, 11:50 PM

I have used a ton of Maxtor's with pretty good reliability but never had good luck with WD but that was 15 years ago. But recently (5 years) I have better luck with WD's then Maxtor's. But personally I prefer Seagate or Hitachi now over both. But they are a bit more expensive which is ok in my opinion.

**Ferrit** · December 17th, 2006, 09:28 AM

Seagate is the brand of choice for me.

**street1** · December 17th, 2006, 11:40 AM

Good old Seagate.My 40 MB from a 386 still works.

Funny thing back then if it wasn't noisey........

You wondered what was wrong with it.

Seagate offers that 5 year warranty.